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Originally Posted by Glenzig
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Its also not something that is actually found in the bible. The word Raqia can have several different meanings, this shouldn't be hard to grasp, after all, every language has many words that have more than one meaning. The most common translation is "firmament", but its not.the only accepted translation. "Expanse" is also an accepted translation.
Though the formation of the expanse, or atmosphere, surrounding earth did not involve a ‘beating out’ of something as solid as some metallic substance, yet it should be remembered that the gaseous mixture forming earth’s atmosphere is just as real as land and water and has weight in itself (in addition to carrying water and innumerable particles of solid materials, such as dust). The weight of all the air surrounding earth is estimated at more than 5,200,000,000,000,000 metric tons. (The World Book Encyclopedia, 1987, Vol. 1, p. 156) Air pressure at sea level runs about 1 kg per sq cm (15 lb per sq in.). It also exercises resistance so that most meteors hitting the immense jacket of air surrounding the earth are p. 787burned up by the friction created by the atmosphere. Thus the force implied in the Hebrew word ra·qi′aʽ is certainly in harmony with the known facts.
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You are seriously grasping at straws here. And of course it isn't found in the bible -- the authors had no fucking idea what they were talking about, which is imminently evident for anyone willing to take a step back and look at the actual evidence. I.E. the text found in the bible as it was written by the original authors.
You and RobotPelvis are doing the exact same thing. You're taking quotes from the bible that are 100% factually incorrect and twisting them to fit your agenda. You seriously think that the Hebrews from thousands of years ago had any concept of an atmosphere surrounding the earth? Or that this atmosphere, composed almost entirely of empty space, could be dense enough to produce the kind of friction necessary to vaporize meteors? Here's another hint: they had no fucking clue about anything of the sort.
Again, there are multitudes of biblical scholars, living and dead, who would disagree with your above interpretation of the word "dome" as presented in Genesis. What makes your opinion any more valid than theirs?